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[Lincoln.] Wispington. 296 Post Office Commercial • [LINCOLN.] WISPINGTON. 296 POST OFFICE COMMERCIAL. Low J oseph, farmer Sargisson Jno.Geo.grocer & linendraper :Balderson William, ca~ter Mawer Abraham, fa,.,nmner Scott William, farmer :Bellamy Prances (Mrs.), Ship Merril Susan (Mrs.), farmer Smith Samuel, farmer Cutforth Richard, farmer • Moody Arking, carrier Taylor Samuel, farmer Garratt Francis, shopkeeper Myers George, farmer & beer retailer Walker Thomas, wheelwright Horn William, beer retailer Odling Thomas, farmer Wails John, farmer Houghton Thomas, coal merchant Overton John, farmer Letters received through Boston. Hutton Thomas, farmer Petty William, parish clerk The nearest money order office is at Xerman Dymoke, farmer Reed William, blacksmith Burgh CARRIER TO SPILSBY-Arking Moody, monday 'W%SP:ENGTON is a parish in the southern division of to whom the manor belongs; the Rev. Charles Terrott, M.A., the wapentake of Gartree, diocese and archdeaconry of is the present incumbent. The chureh is dedicated to Lincoln, deanery of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, and Horn­ St. 1\Iargaret, and consists of nave, chancel, and turret with castle union, distant 3! miles north-west from Horncastle, 2 bells ; in the interior is -a screen faced with stone, with and in 1851 contained 83 inhabitants, and 1,194 acres. The Tudor arches, also an ancient chest of the Decorated period. living is a vicarage, value £200, with residence, and 80 acres HILL HousE is a farm. of glebe, and in the patronage of Christopher Turnor, Esq., Terrott Rev. Charles, M.A. Vicarage Dear Frederick, farmer Letters received by foot post tl1rough COMMERC;J:AL. Evison Andrew, farmer Horncastle, which is the nearest money Cade Mark, parish clerk Fox Robert, farmer order office Cheffins William, farmer, Glebe farm Nundy John, farmer, Hill house CARRIER-Bacon's cart passes through on saturday, to Horncastle; returns same day NOR.TH W:ETHAM, a village and parish, pleasantly building, with a nave and chancel, a spire, and 3 bells ; it situated in a valley on the river Witham, and nearly a mile has been repaired, and contains three modern stained ~lass west of the Great North road, 1~ mile south from Colster- memorial windows, and several handsome monuments of the worth, 4~ south-west from Corby station, 13 north-west from Sherard family, and a brass in memory of Roland Sherard, Stamtord, and 9 south from Grantham, in the hundred and date 1592, with an inscription written by himself in Latin dennery of Beltisloe, diocese and arch deaconry of Lincoln, verse. The area of the parish is I, 740 acres, and the poro­ Kesteven division, and Grantham union. The living is a lation in 1851 was 267, besides Lobthorpe. The Ear of rectory, value .£520, including 123 acres of glebe land and Dysart is lord of the manor. _ residence, in the gift of Lord Down; the Rev. Peter Young, LOBTHORPE is a hamlet 1! mile east, with 1,300 acres, :o.A., is the incumbent. The church of St. Mary is a neat and a population of 42. :Barber Mary (Mrs.}, farmer Knott Joseph, shopkeeper Thompson Henry, farmer :Bryan John, farmer, Lobthorpe Lumby Frederick, farmer, Lobthorpe Webster Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper :Bullymore Michelson, carpenter Porter John, boot & tlhoe maker White George, farmer, Lobthorpe Caparn Richard Hare, farmer · Scott William, farmer, Lobthorpe Letters through Colsterworth, which - Dove J ames, Plough inn Senescall Mrs. fanner, Lobthorpe is the nearest money order office SOU'1'B W:ETBAM is a large village and parish in nave, transept, and a stone turret containing 2 bells, is in Beltisloe hundred and deanery, diocese and archdeaconry of a very dilapidated condition. The rector has improved it Lincoln, Kesteven division, and Grantham union, pleasantly by the removal of a cumbrous gallery; and also the church"" situated on the south-western border of the county and on yard by the removal of rubbisn and soil. ·There are several the river Witham, which has its source in the village, ancient monuments and brasses, the oldest being a small distant 6} miles south-west from Corby station, 11 south brass in memory of Frances Harrington, who died in 1577. from Grantham, 10 north-by-west from Stamford, and 3i There is a singular anomaly in this parish: the incumbent south from Colsterworth. The living is a rectory, value is called the "rector," and yet there is a tract of land, about £225 per annum, arising from 150 acres oflland, with until lately free from church rates, held by the Earl of a residence. The rector is the Hon. and Rev. Ralph William Dysart as "impropriator." It is supposed there were Lionel Tollemache, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridg-e, originally two parishes, and this would account for it. appointed in 1851 by the Earl of Dysart, who is patron of the The W esleyans and Indepemlents have each a chapel here. living and lord of the manor. The church of St. John tl1e There is a charity of £30 left by Richard Halford, Esq., Baptist is a very old and singular looking structure, and was formerly lord of the manor, the interest of which is dis­ originally in the form of a cross; but the clJancel, having tributed to the poor yearly on St. Thomas's-day. The area been suffered to fall to ruin, was many years since re- of the parish is 1,708 acres, and the population in 1851 moved, and the portion still standing, which consists of a was 544. Priestman Mr. John Cooper John, farmer Pearson William, Blue Bull inn, & Tollemache Hon. & Rev. Ralph William Craven Isnac, carrier farmer Lionel, M.A. [rector], Rectory Craven William, draper & grocer Royce Thomas, beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Dring William, boot & shoe maker Scarborough James, fanner Abbott Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Dunmore Robert, farmer & wheelwright Selby Robert, saddler & harness maker Adcock J osiah, bntcher & shopkeeper Else John, baker Shilcock Robert, baker & shopkeeper Beeson Naaman, Blue Cmo inn, & Fowler John, farmer Spriggs John, farmer carrier Green John & George, carpenters Talton Ann (Mrs.), _postmistress :Berridge Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Healey Samuel, Angel inn, & farmer Walker Joseph, earner Eoss William, blacksmith Hilton John, farmer Whyman Daniel Ebenezer, farmer & Bryan Geo.owner of thrashing machine Hubbard William, boot & shoemaker tanner Euckby Samuel, carpenter Lank Thomas, stonemason Wildman William, shopkeeper Collin Henry, dt<aper Mitchelson William, baker Wootton John, blacksmith Cooper Isaac, shopkeeper Munton John B. beer retailer & butcher, Yates Henry, tailor PosT OPFICE.-Mrs• .Ann Talton, receiver. Letters arrive CARRIERS TO :- from Colsterworth at ll.80 a.m. & are dispatched at GRANTHAM-Isaac Craven & Naaman Beeson, saturday 3.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Colster­ OAKAM Joseph Walker, saturday worth STAMFORD-Isaac Craven, fiiday 'WZTBAM-ON-TH:E:-B:r::r.:r., a pleasant parish and the Hall, a noble mansion, with extensive park and plea~ure well-built village, near the Great Northern railway, standing grounds. The south entrance is by a neat lodge, with a on an eminence, 4! miles south-west of Bourn, 5 north long drive through the park. The chnrch of St. Andrews is from Essendine station, and 7 north of Stamford, in Beltisloe a pretty building, with tower, spire and 6 ~Jells; the interior wapentake and deanery, diocese and archdeaconry of Lincoln, consists of nave, two side aisles and chancel, nnd hae a and union of Bourn, parts of Kesteven, South I.incolnshire, handsome window at the west end. The living is a vicarage, contained in 1851 a population of 260 in the township, and annual value £107, with residence, in the gift of General 2,093 acres of land in the parish, including nearly 200 acres Johnson, and held by the Rev. William Henry Johnson, of wood. The lord of the manor and chief owner of the :o.A., who resides -at the viearage-house, a neat moderrr soil is General William. Augustus Johnson, who resid~ pt building, a little .south-east of the church~ The Endowed .
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